Smithsonian Magazine on MSN10d
Experts Say They’ve Found a Portrait of a Mysterious Businessman Hidden Beneath a Titian Masterpiece
When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...
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Key Motifs in Italian Renaissance Art: Mythology to Portraits
In the early Renaissance, portraits of women were typically ... the inclusion of clearly religious objects such as prayer books, rosary beads, and covered hair. This was transformed in the ...
The Grammar of Angels: Propulsive new account of Renaissance controversies about language, knowledge and the occult
Focusing on the life of Italian scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, this is a superbly written effort to capture the power ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN16d
Hidden portrait revealed under Titian’s 1570 masterpiece in Cyprus
Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil painting by Renaissance master Titian ... standing next to a stack of papers or books - a ...